Aspects of Child Psychology

Child Psychology

Child Psychology

a great many experimental studies of the infant's behaviour, intellectual and linguistic growth, play and social development. The author's account of the development of meanings, of imagination and of verbal learning, thinking and working, is sound and clear. The description of the development of social behaviour and the discussion of the complexity of conscious motives entering into social sit...

Child and Educational Psychology

Child and Educational Psychology. Tlie Psychological Bulletin. Vol. Ill, No. 2, Nov. 15, 1907. Edited by M. V. O'Shea. The leading article of this number of the "Psychological Bulletin" is a critical and historical survey of recent work in education and child psychology from the pen of its editor, the Professor of the Science and Art of Education in the University of Wisconsin. Speaking for edu...

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Currently there are disputes in the infancy literature concerning when infants are first able to individuate physical objects by their features or properties. This issue has taken on new significance following claims that individuation by feature is linked to the emergence of object kind concepts toward the end of the first year. Needham (2001, this issue) presents evidence that infants as youn...

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

In three experiments with 164 individuals between 4 and 80 years old, we examined age-related changes in explicit memory for three perceptual features—item identity, color, and location. In Experiments 1–2, feature recognition was assessed in an incidental learning, gamelike task resembling the game Concentration. In Experiment 3, feature recognition was assessed using a pencil-and-paper task a...